February 21, 2022February 19, 2022Cairngorms, Hidden Fires, Uncategorized, Walking

Ice and Running Water

When the author Nan Shepherd was walking the Cairngorms in the 1940s, […]

December 6, 2021December 6, 2021Cairngorms, Uncategorized

Following Nan Shepherd up Creag Dhubh

Creag Dhubh is the first hill Scottish writer Nan Shepherd climbed on […]

September 6, 2021September 7, 2021Novels, Of Stone and Sky, Scotland

On the Trail of the Highland Shepherd

We found the abandoned lamb at the edge of a field, bleating […]

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021Cairngorms, Of Stone and Sky, Walking

Of Reindeer and Rams Horns

Setting off for an overnight climb and camp in the Cairngorms, our […]

June 21, 2021July 7, 2021Books, Cairngorms, Mountains, Of Stone and Sky, Uncategorized, Walking

Stone and Sky on Angel’s Peak

On this night, eight years ago, I started writing my novel, Of […]

April 26, 2021April 24, 2021Cairngorms, Of Stone and Sky, Uncategorized, Wildlife

The Ospreys are Back!

The ospreys are back! It’s that exciting time of year in the […]

October 26, 2020October 24, 2020Cairngorms, Scotland, Uncategorized, Wildlife

October in the Cairngorms

“October is the coloured month,” Nan Shepherd wrote in The Living Mountain […]

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020Books, Cairngorms, Mountains, Novels, Of Stone and Sky, Uncategorized

Two-Book Deal For Merryn Glover’s Cairngorms

Friends and faithful readers of Writing the Way, I cannot tell you […]

September 28, 2020September 25, 2020Cairngorms, Wildlife

Loch Insh Osprey

The ospreys have gone. I went away for a week and when I got back, the strath had slipped into autumn and the eyrie above Loch Insh was empty.

August 24, 2020August 22, 2020Cairngorms, Uncategorized, Walking

Loch Etchachan & Ben MacDui: A Cairngorms Photo Story

Living by the Spey, most of my walks into the Cairngorms are […]